The thing I'm surprised about is that those faces only cover his ..head?.. while the rest of his body is quite smooth, well okay he looks like a third degree burn victim. Also his foot reminds me of an elephant.

Seriously, if it wasn't for Bekul, those would have been two of the worst back-to-back posts I have ever seen.. and I'm not entirely sure "Guts... is gonna need a bigger sword" entirely saved the day, either, due to its irrelevancy. Way to go kick random crap around our pristine and beautiful home. (edit by Walter: then, isn't more than half of this post irrelevant too?)

On topic now, those spoiler images were very cool, if not a little daunting. I do hear Koh Ohtani's "Roar of the Earth" in the background whenever I look at them. Whatever Griffith has up his gilded sleeve better work like the dream he weaved for the masses foretold, because it's going to take an amazing trick to topple this form of Ganishka.

Then again, maybe it'll only take something small to deflate this overblown power. We'll see soon enough (but not in this episode, I'm guessing).

Hahaha Ganishka has gone mad, he crushes his soldiers calling them insects, then marvels at the "red flowers" that sprout after having squashed them. Someone from the Bakiraka pretty much calls him the final, ultimate demon (furigana reads "Shiva").

Wow, the Beherit reacted like it does when the Godhand are near. Does this mean Ganishka has reached that level?

Not necessarily, the beherit could just be reacting to the strong evil, or even to the disruption of the layers of the world like brinco said. Besides, if Ganishka tapped into the "ocean" the beherits come from, it would make a lot of sense for it to react like that.

And still no reaction from Griffith. I'm dying to see what's he going to do, or hear a piece of his mind. Did he expect this?

Well he certainly doesn't look surprised. Or even bothered. And the Pontiff is pretty confident too, telling people that it was all foretold and that the Falcon will take care of it. As for the rest of the episode, at the beginning we can see Serpico enjoying the wind while they're sailing, and the sailor says that whenever he's up there they get more wind. Schierke remarks that the Sylphs gather around him. Just before feeling that something big is happening, she was proposing Farnese to push her training further as she's getting good with her astral body. Before going back to Wyndham, Schierke comments on how the world is being torn.

Don't forget the Beherit actually gets in on the comedy act, mow that was funny, and since the Pontiff has an upside-down triforce, does that make it an evil triforce of power?

Anyway, yeah, pretty fucking fantastic, and I'm glad about the Shiva reference. Can't wait to see where this goes from here, I hope Ganishka isn't dismissed as quickly as he's been revitalized, I need more destruction first. =)